A09466:22
A treatise tending unto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of…A treatise tending vnto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of…
A treatise tending unto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of damnation or in the estate of grace and if he be in the first, how he may in time come out of it: if in the second, how he may discern it, and persevere in the same to the end. The points that are handled are set down in the page following.A treatise tending vnto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of damnation or in the estate of grace and if he be in the first, how he may in time come out of it: if in the second, how he maie discerne it, and perseuere in the same to the end. The points that are handled are set downe in the page following.
London: printed by R. Robinson for T. Gubbin, 1590
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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This knowledge is only general and imperfect, much like the ruins of a Princes palace: it is not sufficient to direct him in doing of a good work. For example, the reprobate ⟨p. 2⟩knoweth that there is a God, and that this God must be worshipped: come to particulars, who God is? what a one he is? how he must be worshipped? Here his knowledge faileth him, and he is altogether uncertain what to do to please God.
This knowledge is only generall and imperfect, much like the ruines of a Princes pallace: it is not sufficient to direct him in doing of a good worke. For example, the reprobate ⟨p. 2⟩knoweth that there is a God, and that this God must be worshipped: come to particulars, who God is? what a one hee is? howe hee must bee worshipped? Here his knowledge faileth him, and he is altogether vncertaine what to doe to please God.